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Grand Sunrise

A neighborhood page. 50 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area.

50

drone flights crossed Grand Sunrise.

12

of them in October 2026.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Grand Sunrise 50 times between 23 June 2026 and 28 October 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 28 October 2026.

12 of the 12 drawable flights that crossed the area in October 2026. The outlined area is the neighborhood. Paths run beyond it because each whole flight is drawn; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
Grand SunriseOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

10 hours of flight time by flights that crossed this area.

24% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (PDT).

0 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are listed, and drawn as an area rather than a path.

Month by month

Flights that crossed Grand Sunrise, per month by takeoff date. Click a month for its own page.

  1. Jun 2026: 1 flights. 1
  2. Jul 2026: 13 flights. 13
  3. Aug 2026: 6 flights. 6
  4. Sep 2026: 18 flights. 18
  5. Oct 2026: 12 flights. 12
Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 26

The hatched bar is the current month, still in progress.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 50 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service94%
  2. Not stated4%
  3. Training and testing2%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2026

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 9 Oct 202611:31 pmCall for service13 min82873780
Sat 10 Oct 202612:06 amNot stated7 mine49b4af0
Sun 11 Oct 20268:53 pmCall for service7 min3463ba70
Mon 12 Oct 20266:10 amCall for service9 min0855cc49
Tue 13 Oct 20263:03 amCall for service15 minbb684b1f
Sun 18 Oct 202612:27 amCall for service6 minc5baeece
Tue 20 Oct 20266:05 amCall for service8 minb98aac25
Tue 20 Oct 20264:24 pmCall for service14 minb8388e52
Sat 24 Oct 202612:42 pmCall for service18 min988f12e1
Tue 27 Oct 20262:28 pmCall for service9 min46dfba3c
Tue 27 Oct 20262:55 pmCall for service20 min92ab3aa4
Wed 28 Oct 20268:14 pmCall for service18 mina43efd4f

All 12 flights in October 2026. Flights with a sensitive stated purpose are listed and drawn as an area, not a path. Times are local to the agency.

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, takeoff to landing.
  • The record's free-text description is never read into a page. A flight whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter is listed like any other but drawn as a generalised area, not a path.
  • Operators are the agency's own accounts in the record, numbered within the agency in order of first flight; no name or address is read into a page.
  • Purposes are the agency's own words, grouped into classes by a fixed list of terms; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are shown on the agency's own local clock.
  • Boundary. "Grand Sunrise" is a neighborhood polygon from City of Santa Ana (Neighborhood Associations), licence "PDDL-1.0".
  • A flight counts for this area when its path crosses the boundary; only the part inside is drawn.

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